Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f86918838ca86e80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-03-16 00:59:15 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 155046040d08a1fb06001666b36c14a0 SHA-1: 840d80c338f25b5f77383d64ecf6112427f0582a SHA-256: f86918838ca86e80ee90127b8e383ffc7005ecc1897c9939377b083a676d2aff
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses brand-impersonation credential phishing. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=msn+hot+mail.co.uk+sign+in.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://jottigo.ru/wix?keyword=msn+hot+mail.co.uk+sign+in PDF link annotation
    • http://bubobimurasawe.iblogger.org/cuisinart_air_fryer_toaster_oven_toa-60_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tesadubozino/haidRtw/dining_chairs_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tifunadepepix.22web.org/sowepidolijotiwasuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misiliv.66ghz.com/40755690188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sixepatexup/2hjYQwC/2606252642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/salulilo/hwsibib/granny_mod_menu_apk_1._5._9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivokuje.iblogger.org/gojofanutinedetotitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mukibusu/i6OKgfA/world_school_leadership_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wanuvudeb/jbBLQje/2_color_passport_size_photos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pozigafo/fiajb7q/2017_football_recruits_espn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16da7b-5b4f-4122-a3c4-5c88c9d97cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/83f04e_219494ee8a904627aab31a292c33a910.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://700ceb37-22d2-47c5-9888-d858af679aee.filesusr.com/ugd/c345b0_7a6dbb554124433693ef94af25de3cbe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9fbaa0db-fe9e-443e-b503-3d02ea494c21.filesusr.com/ugd/d417e9_001cf25359c541e7b520b532acfd4951.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bdee912e-6294-4561-ab7e-f07e2b29905e/bulosokepopukafevejakiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a9cc89f4-7256-44a9-8b25-ad2e348aea4f.filesusr.com/ugd/7ad284_ab077b60bff3485b8c075ba190e2cae5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bac325b5-3710-4a60-ba01-c1ac5e8a7650.filesusr.com/ugd/c111de_59713822304f40a4a93560320894a486.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c1deb89d-da38-4ce2-81e9-54ef7e2ad8b5/kauai_road_map_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e1bd05e7-a2ed-43df-b5fc-9bc8ee0b1a84.filesusr.com/ugd/08acf3_8b74a233a1c14eb08b5166cb58f33643.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bamiwuvobazom.rf.gd/ruwuraretanuzagera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a1befc3-4501-4ac5-91ba-0bde46256bb4/cisco_ccna_exam_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f8071fb1-33dc-4bb9-9fe9-292e0ca0d861.filesusr.com/ugd/253000_ec8972086fcc4f278a512f5387c65c97.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://da5bec28-7969-4117-8ffb-5069fce5e80c.filesusr.com/ugd/31593d_5b5fdb7efeb24c33b96b5407f20f7b23.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eeb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB6 5216 bytes
SHA-256: e431710577afa9eda053e7010e9bb18f493eacb55f7c57da8a29dd69138acccc
font_01_sfnt_off00010060.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10060 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 6bce9ae6c8000781de73315ccdc0cdfa8c9d96c2871f3b478565a7a82f80f63c